WATCH: You won’t believe how long this European Tour pro stands over the ball

Meet Sam Horsfield, a 22-year-old Englishman who played college golf at the University of Florida and is nearing the end of his first full season on the European Tour. As he stood over a tee shot at the Turkish Airlines Open, he was captured and posted to Instagram by Golfmagic.com. What you’re about to witness are 25 seconds of absolute agony. That’s not the time spent in the pre-shot routine — that’s how long he spent over the ball. Some slight twitches. Several regrips. Everything but smoke spewing out of the poor guy’s ears.

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UPDATE: Horsfield took to Twitter on Sunday to address the viral video.

(1/2)So I’ve seen some tweets about me standing over the ball for a long time the last few days and I want to address it. This is not something I am not trying to do and its something I am working hard on to try and fix. I am doing what my team and I feel is necessary to fix the

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